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eoinmurray92on Laboratory Notebook Skills [pdf]

Happy to, but I've no way to ping you?

eoinmurray92on Now dev – Serverless on localhost

About 6months ago we had to leave now v1 because of bad TTFB times compared to Heroku (me in Europe and server in USA east - now gave 800-900ms TTFB with massive variance > 2s vs Heroku constant 250ms TTFB). We left because of those bad TTFB times and an unresponsive support from my point of view, once they left slack in favour of spectrum [1, 2] it was impossible to get a response. I had left some detailed tests. (Spectrum is hosted on now I think which has currently a 2s TTFB for me in Spain).

I really wanted to use now because the developer experience is so great but the TTFB made itunusable for us to host customer facing services and lack of support response made it hard to stay.

[1] https://spectrum.chat/zeit/now/slow-response-times-for-node-... [2] https://spectrum.chat/zeit/now/latency-discrepancy-between-n...

eoinmurray92on Laboratory Notebook Skills [pdf]

This is something we think a lot about at Kyso (https://kyso.io/for-teams) - my startup - we let teams manage analytics knowledge basically by letting teams share Jupyter notebooks - we've spoken to lots of people about how the organise them and are writing a guide really soon that sounds like what you want.

- Keep all your teams notebooks in one place (not on laptops)

- Reuse them liberally (the %run command is excellent and often better than creating python libraries)

- Most important of all is make them readable documents not just list of coding commands, that means you should title things clearly, explain what you going to do.

- Label everything, axis labels are needed on almost every chart, and also make sure you put a title and description for every chart.

- Separating your project into processing and presentation notebooks is really helpful. So one notebook for data prep and another for plots and explanations.

eoinmurray92on Rich countries tend to have a bigger middle-class, except the USA

Also interesting is looking at GDP per capita vs equality (GINI coefficient)

I've posted the graph here: https://kyso.io/eoin/gdp-per-capita-vs-gini

And a discussion link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19732909

eoinmurray92on A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science

Yeah Bokeh is also excellent

eoinmurray92on Dear AI startups: Your ML models are dying quietly

Its awesome - we've recently launched a team version https://kyso.io/for-teams and our beta users seem to love it

eoinmurray92on Dear AI startups: Your ML models are dying quietly

Sanau seems like a new version of Sagemaker https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/ where you write code in Jupyter and it auto converts to endpoints.

I've used these solutions, but while Jupyter is amazing (my startup https://kyso.io started as a way to share notebooks) I'm not sure if deducing which cells to convert into an endpoint is the way to go - especially since you will need to also host model files and extra data?

eoinmurray92on A book to learn R and Python in parallel for Data Science

Dash by plotly is also amazing its like shiny but for python! - we were able to whip together an app that would let you drag and drop xyyy data and get a scatter plot instantly - you can try it here (first load takes 1-2s):

https://dash-app-dx9g2r0la6-8000.cloud.kyso.io

It was also really easy to make it, maybe 250 lines of python in total

(guide to making this app is here: https://kyso.io/KyleOS/creating-an-interactive-application-u...)

eoinmurray92on Ask HN: How do I improve our data infrastructure?

For exploring, I started Kyso for this reason, you have data in S3 - explore it using a Jupyter notebook running on ec2, and if you wish you could push your notebooks to Kyso for your team to read (we make them look like blog posts).

We act like knowledge repo for teams so you can add a wiki article explaining where the data is and how to get it, and the notebooks can be downloaded/forked, saved on github, so that your team can re-use them as data transformation scripts.

https://kyso.io/for-teams

I'm more than happy to help anyone get started at eoin [at] (company website)

eoinmurray92on What Airbnb's Knowledge Repo Inspired Us to Build

I'm one of the people made this and I've love to answer any questions. We used the knowledge repo extensively at my last startup and we loved it, this is our attempt to improve upon those idea

eoinmurray92on GitHub accounts for 14% of Mediums outbound referrals

I found this interesting - shows how in demand data-science is right now - towardsdatascience is in the top 5 inbound and outbound referring domains on medium

eoinmurray92on World Happiness Report, 2019

See my other comment but I've made a new graph where the markers are scaled by GDP per cap: https://kyso.io/eoin/world-happiness-gdp-per-capita-scaled

eoinmurray92on World Happiness Report, 2019

https://kyso.io/eoin/world-happiness-gdp-per-capita-scaled

I forked OP's study and graphed out how Happiness vs GINI looks when you scale the markers by GDP per capita, there is a clear trend of increasing happiness with increasing GINI, but it snaps back for the highest GDP per capita countries

(disclaimer - I founded Kyso - the company these studies are hosted on)

eoinmurray92on World Happiness Report, 2019

I think you are right, but these studies are still generally interesting I think the dynamics between GDP per capita, GINI and happiness/satisfaction are pretty interesting

eoinmurray92on World Happiness Report, 2019

I think increasing GINI might be correlated with GDP growth in most countries (including, Europe, but much let so).

So increasing GINI would correlate with increasing happiness, until you hit the GDP per capita ceiling, and then it becomes anti-correlated.

eoinmurray92on VC dollars per capita 2017 – 1. Massachusetts 2. California 3. DC

Notes on data:

VC data comes from the PitchBook Venture Monitor Population data comes from the USA Census Bureau

eoinmurray92on Build and Deploy Serverless React Apps with Next.js 8 and Zeit Now

I love now.sh - its the best developer experience out there and we really really tried to use it at my company - but we kept on having latency issues. It was consistently 5-10x the TTFB of Heroku or an ec2 instance (all in the same locations, or super close).

eoinmurray92on A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty

Just to note - Branko Milanovic (cited by Roser) backed up Hickel on many of the main poinst:

https://glineq.blogspot.com/2019/02/global-poverty-over-long...

eoinmurray92on Show HN: Kyso – Publish Your Jupyter Notebooks as Blog Posts

Kyso is kind of like nbviewer + binder.

With nbviewer you need to self host the notebook somewhere, and there are no profiles - so you can't keep all your work together.

With Kyso you can upload a notebook, import from github, or open Jupyter in the cloud and then publish your work, its all integrated.

eoinmurray92on Show HN: Kyso – Publish Your Jupyter Notebooks as Blog Posts

Kind of like Github + Medium - because a lot of data-science is narrative based, so the presentation of results and insights is very important.

Thanks why we hide the code by default on the notebooks and we work hard to make interactive charts (like bokeh, d3) work perfectly.

eoinmurray92on Show HN: Kyso – Publish Your Jupyter Notebooks as Blog Posts

Hi all - Eoin one of the founders of Kyso here, happy to answer any questions!

eoinmurray92on Ask HN: Pros and cons of working at a startup in 2018?

also there can be stress every now and then

eoinmurray92on Pull to Refresh.js

It would be good to have this on npm also

eoinmurray92on TypingDNA verifies your identity based on typing behavior

Is there docs on how I can integrate this into my app, do you have a javascript library?

eoinmurray92on TypingDNA verifies your identity based on typing behavior

How does it work? Machine-learning I assume, but what kind?

eoinmurray92on JupyterLab is ready for users

This is awesome - jupyter basically drives my whole company at https://kyso.io we are gonna implement jupyterlab really soon once we've done sufficient testing.

eoinmurray92on You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time

It not correlation - bell inequalities show that local variables don't explain the correlations: ie no correlated variable exists because states are decided at measurement (or wavefunction collapse) time. This is why entanglement is interesting.

eoinmurray92on Quick Start Guide to Opening Up a Jupyter Notebook in the Cloud

Yo eoinmrray here, co-founder of Kyso. we recently started at Techstars NYC - happy to answer any questions!

eoinmurray92on Show HN: Observable Notebooks

There are a few ways to open Jupyter notebooks in the cloud pretty easily:

https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/

https://cloud.google.com/datalab/

https://gryd.us/

https://kyso.io (disclaimer - I'm a founder)

Do you want it to be so easy that you jump into the notebook immediately upon logging in, the hard part is that javascript will run in your browser - but python or R need a kernel running somewhere?

eoinmurray92on Launch HN: VergeSense (YC S17) – AI-Powered Sensors for Building Management

How do you train the models in the cloud, run servers yourself, or use some service?